shadow-taking

English

Noun

shadow-taking (uncountable)

  1. (Caribbean) A form of spiritual theft or curse where a sorcerer traps, steals, or detaches a person's spirit from their physical body.
    • 1954, Ian Fleming, “Allumeuse”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 108:
      What of Mialism, of shadow-taking, of the death by swelling and the death by wasting?
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